Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
Sally Ride
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
Sally Kristen Ride
Close
Practice
Though
Even
Trying
Simulate
Nasa
Launch
Tries
More quotes by Sally Ride
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
Sally Ride
I had both male and female heroes.
Sally Ride
Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
Sally Ride
I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
Sally Ride
It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.
Sally Ride
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
Sally Ride
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
Sally Ride
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride
Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
Sally Ride
It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
Sally Ride
Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
Sally Ride
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
Sally Ride
NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
Sally Ride
You know, I go around the country a lot.
Sally Ride
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
Sally Ride
If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
Sally Ride
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
Sally Ride
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
Sally Ride
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
Sally Ride
I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
Sally Ride
